Posts tagged "sexism"

David Letterman, we haven't forgotten about you and your staff member-diddling ways! Nell Scovell, the second female ever hired to write for "Late Night with David Letterman" recently penned a piece for Vanity Fair's website alleging that sex between high-level male and lower-level female staffers led to a "hostile" work environment: "Without naming…

Hey, big news! Abercrombie & Fitch has a few T-shirts in its "New College" line that are, like, way sexual and sexist and not particularly funny. (The shirts above say "Show the Twins," "Female Students Wanted for Sexual Research,"and "Female streaking encouraged.") And people are mad about it! The American Family Association (AFA), a religiou…

You've probably heard of Tucker Max, blogger and author of the memoir I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, who regaled the bestseller list with stories of sex with many, many women and excessive drinking. (The charming cover illustration is of a man holding a beer bottle and pointing to a blonde…

A new law in Afghanistan permits men who are Shia Muslims to deny food for their wives if she won't satisfy his sexual longings. According to the Guardian, the law states:"Tamkeen is the readiness of the wife to submit to her husband's reasonable sexual enjoyment, and her prohibition from going out of the house, except…

A PETA billboard in Jacksonville, FL, calls larger women "whales" and urges them to "lose the blubber" by going vegetarian. PETA's press release on the billboard says "going vegetarian can be an effective way to shed those extra pounds that keep [women] from looking good in a bikini." Oh, God, now…

We love the idea, in theory, of a porn magazine for women. Unfortunately, Filament, a British for-women-by-women porn mag, is having a lot of troubles. First, the above-the-waist photos of "feminine" male models, which Filament's editors said academic research proved women are attracted to, were not pornographic enough for us. Sorry, but Rufu…

If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been invited to the Obama's "beer summit," she should have knocked back a bottle of Mad Bitch beer, said Dana Milbank, a columnist for The Washington Post, in a video on the WaPo web site. [Politico] — Because insinuating a powerful woma…

Come on, Double X, you're just baiting us: With a headline like "The Appallingly Sexist Origins of Facebook," we were expecting to be served some juicy dish that made Mark Zuckerberg, the 25-year-old founder of Facebook, look like a pig. But Double X pulled snippets of purported douchebaggery from The…

A male blogger named Anthony Michael Rojas posted a little list entitled "How To Treat A Woman On A Date: The Basics" on his Tumbler blog this week and it got quite a few angry reblogs from women who felt like his suggestions were sexist. Rojas clearly believe his suggestions to be basic…

Jamie Lynn Spears gives us the finger, and parties it up. [TMZ] -- We’re glad the girl is finally acting her age, but we’re a little scared about what’s in the cup. Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston have reportedly split up. [Us Magazine] -- He was too cute for her, anyway.

Historically, if that's a word that can be used in relationship to blogging, Gawker Media ladyblog Jezebel has dedicated much its blog's space to pointing out sexism in advertising -- or what they deem "badvertising." So, if the Jezebels are the self-proclaimed policewomen of what they perceive to be rampant advertising…

This morning, I flew back to New York and caught up on my pop music by listening to the Top 20on20 on XM radio, the one perk Airtran provides. Most of the music was expected -- Lady GaGa, Miley Cyrus, Black Eyed Peas -- but I'd never heard one of the songs that made it…

In the most recent issue of Vice, Chris Nieratko lists 10 inventions he wishes, you know, inventors would make already. He desires a cell phone with lasers, a "titty-milk-catching bag," and seven others things. That adds up to nine, if you're counting. The 10th annoyed me. A Mouthless Woman: A mouthless woman gives me no…

These ads caught my eye -- which I suppose is exactly what their creators at Brazilian ad agency Publicis had in mind when they created them. The image is arresting, isn't it? In this provocative ad series, the women appear to be holding their own lopped off heads. The tagline is an odd fit, though.

Over on AskMen.com there’s this article all about the importance of asking a father’s permission for his daughter’s hand in marriage, a tradition I guess I wrongly assumed was as relevant as outhouses and chastity belts. According to the article, “while the traditional reasons for asking are now obsolete, popping the question to…

Some folks have gotten their panties in a bunch over Beyonce's cover for the "Shape Issue" of Vogue. Beyonce is one of only five black women to grace the cover of Vogue since it was founded in 1892, but blogs like Jezebel and Sociological Images think the magazine was being sexist…

Behold the European beer giant’s latest ad that’s been airing all over Holland. You don’t need to speak Dutch to get the gist. The scene takes place at a couple’s new home, where the woman is giving her friends a grand tour. The situation quickly turns into a screaming contest between men and women, beer…

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Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…